The Arts
- 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, by Tom Moon
- A Century of Jazz, by Roy Carr (editor)
- Folk & Blues: The Encyclopedia, by Irwin Stambler and Lyndon Stambler
- Geniuses of the American Musical Theatre, by Herbert Keyser
- Jazz: The First Century, by John Edward Hasse (editor)
- Jazz Idiom: Blueprints, Stills and Frames, photographs by Charles L. Robinson; poetry by Al Young
- Jazz Styles: History and Analysis, Seventh Edition, by Mark C. Gridley
- Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life, by Wynton Marsalis with Geoffrey C. Ward
- Once Again to Zelda: The Stories Behind Literature's Most Intriguing Dedications, by Marlene Wagman-Geller
- Picasso's One-Liners, by Pablo Picasso
- The Andy Warhol Diaries, edited by Pat Hackett
- This Wheel's On Fire, by Levon Helm, with Stephen Davis
- The Peter Yarrow Songbook: Favorite Folk Songs, by Peter Yarrow
- The Peter Yarrow Songbook: Sleepytime Songs, by Peter Yarrow
- Bogart, by A.M. Sperber and Eric Lax
- My Brother Joseph: The Spirit of a Cardinal and the Story of a Friendship, by Eugene Kennedy
- Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age, by Arthur Herman
- Stan Getz: A Life in Jazz, by Donald L. Maggin
- Saint-Exupéry, by Stacy Schiff
- Sinatra: The Voice, by James Kaplan
- Supermen: The story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards behind the Supercomputer, by Charles J. Murray
- Balboa Park: A to Z, by Jennifer G. Lanzrath; illustrated by Joy Raab
- The Peter Yarrow Songbook: Favorite Folk Songs, by Peter Yarrow
- The Peter Yarrow Songbook: Sleepytime Songs, by Peter Yarrow
- Guac Off!, by Nathan Myers; photographs by Jeremiah Webster
- 500 Years in the Jewish Caribbean: The Spanish and Portuguese Jews in the West Indies, by Harry A. Ezratty
- Bayaka, by Louis Sarno (with accompanying CD)
- A Borrowed Place: The History of Hong Kong, by Frank Welsh
- Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made, by Jonathon Green
- Explorers of the Amazon, by Anthony Smith
- Game Six, by Mark Frost
- Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age, by Arthur Herman
- Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam, by David G. Dalin and John F. Rothmann
- Living Dangerously, by Ranulph Fiennes
- Nerds 2.01: A Brief History of the Internet, by Stephen Segaller
- No Ordinary Joes, by Larry Colton
- Pacific Southwest Airlines, by Alan Renga and Mark E. Mentges
- Safe Return Doubtful, by John Maxtone-Graham
- Towers of Gold, by Frances Dinkelspiel
- Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces, by the Bathroom Reader's Institute
- When Baseball Went to War, edited by Todd Anton and Bill Nowlin
- World War II 365 Days, by Margaret E. Wagner
- The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000: The Book, by Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner
- The Angry Clam: The Greatest Story Never Told, by Erik Quisling
- Eat What You Want and Die Like a Man: The World's Unhealthiest Cookbook, by Steve Graham
- The Last Bus to Albuquerque, by Lewis Grizzard
- Notes From a Small Island, by Bill Bryson
- A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, by Bill Bryson
- Burntwater, by Scott Thybony
- A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, by Leo Tolstoy
- Consistently Opposing Killing: From Abortion to Assisted Suicide, the Death Penalty, and War, edited by Rachel M. MacNair and Stephen Zunes
- The Awe-Manac: A Daily Dose of Wonder, by Jill Badonsky
- The Purpose of Christmas, by Rick Warren
- Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life, by Bishop Charles J. Chaput
- Values of the Game, by Bill Bradley
- What's Going On: Personal Essays, by Nathan McCall
- Before the Beginning: Our Universe and Others, by Martin Rees
- Clouds, by Eric M. Wilcox
- Einstein's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe, by Evalyn Gates
- Hunting Down the Universe: The Missing Mass, Primordial Black Holes and Other Dark Matters, by Michael Hawkins
- The Life of the Cosmos, by Lee Smolin
- Life on the Edge: Amazing Creatures Thriving in Extreme Environments, by Michael Gross
- A Man on the Moon, by Andrew Chaikin
- A Natural History of Seeing: The Art & Science of Vision, by Simon Ings
- One Thousand Languages: Living, Endangered, and Lost, edited by Peter K. Austin
- Prisons of Light: Black Holes, by Kitty Ferguson
- The Private Life of Plants, by David Attenborough
- Shadow of a Star: The Neutrino Story of Supernova 1987A, by Alfred K. Mann
- Why Geology Matters: Decoding the Past, Anticipating the Future, by Doug MacDougall
- The Grand Failure, by Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Grave Exodus, by Xavier A. Cronin
- Kingdom of Fear, by Hunter S. Thompson
- The Proud Highway: Saga of a Southern Gentleman, by Hunter S. Thompson
- The Simpson Trial in Black and White, by Tom Elias and Dennis Schatzman
- Speaking Freely, by Nat Hentoff
- Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies, by Sanford Levinson
- Game Six, by Mark Frost
- When Baseball Went to War, edited by Todd Anton and Bill Nowlin
- Feeding Frenzy: Across Europe in Search of the Perfect Meal by Stuart Stevens
